This guide instructs you how to enable or disable font antialiasing (smoothing) and hinting. Antialiased fonts appear smooth, without sharp corners, in contrast with un-antialised fonts, which are sharp.

Changelog:

Quote:

27/8/09: after some research, changes.
13/8/09: first version.

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BEFORE DOING IT:
- In Puppy, by default, it's turned on for JWM. However, if you want to install XFCE/KDE/GNOME, I *think* it's off by default for them.
- Choose between on and off. You can reverse the changes (delete the created files) and try both modes.
- This is easy. Don't panic.

REQUIREMENTS:
- Linux.

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Step 1: for JWM.

Choose between on and off. Turning antialiasing fonts will result in sharp fonts, which may be unreadable on some LCD monitors. Generally, it is recommended that you turn it on for LCD monitors and off for CRT monitors.

About the "let go your ego", I don't see where it fits. The only one who doen't "let go your ego" is the person who said this! He tells me to "let go my ego" while he links to his post (he's trying to prove that downloading a huge .PET is a better way to turn on antialiasing, actually)!

I'm just trying to contribute from my knowledge and my experience, I'm not trying to hurt anyone. That's my thing.

About the "let go your ego", I don't see where it fits. The only one who doen't "let go your ego" is the person who said this! He tells me to "let go my ego" while he links to his post (he's trying to prove that downloading a huge .PET is a better way to turn on antialiasing, actually)!

I'm just trying to contribute from my knowledge and my experience, I'm not trying to hurt anyone. That's my thing.

With a forum this size its not uncommon for there to be duplicate information ... I actually though Sit Heel Speak was dealing with more than just a quick fonts.conf fix for browser rendering which I posted elsewhere too ...
At the end of the day everyone is simply trying to help with information that they have gathered themselves.....I certainly have no ambitions to be top dog....in fact I'm not sure if I have an ego

May I inquire, Iguleder,--if you will countenance my daring to approach, after my insolent first reaction, so full of my own ego-- on what Puppy, and under what window manager, you have found this elegant solution to be of benefit?

Ok xfce on 4.12...copied /etc/fonts/fonts.conf as is to /root/.fonts.conf and voila those perfect fonts I've been used to in puppy 2 in firefox...better than my original file hyjacked from ubuntu...(gave coloured edges to fonts)

Why the difference between puppy versions....different versions of gtk2/pango etc have their config files in different places...the daft barstewards

mike

edit...its probably the version of gtk2 that the browser was compiled against maiking a difference

I just tried making a bci-hinting-enabled libfreetype PET for 4.12-regular.

Official Puppy 4.12, with my .pet installed, looks awful! Whereas, simply writing iguleder's code to /root/.fonts.conf, but not to /etc/fonts/local.conf, looks great! In fact, this "4.12-iguleder" looks very nearly as good as 4.20 looks with my full bci font tweaks.

It must be as mikeb says: different ways that gtk, pango/cairo, libXft, Seamonkey are compiled, in different Puppies means that these different methods of font tweaking, produce different results on different Puppy versions.

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